Off-duty FBI agent fatally shoots man at Chicago homeless encampment

Right · 2An off-duty FBI agent shot and killed a man in Chicago on Monday night, 26 October, at a homeless encampment, according to multiple federal law enforcement sources who spoke to Fox News. 1 2 Right · 1Federal sources identified the man as 27-year-old Oscar D. Corrales, and the Cook County Medical Examiner's Office gave Fox News Digital a record identifying Corrales as a 27-year-old man under case number 5735. 1 Right · 2The sources said Corrales was firing a gun toward people in the encampment when the agent, who was driving alone, spotted him, got out of the car and shot him dead. 1 2

Right · 2The Chicago Police Department confirmed to Fox News Digital that officers responded to a shooting involving federal agents in the 1700 block of South Union Avenue, and said its Investigative Response Team was on site to document the incident; it referred further questions to the FBI's Chicago field office. 1 2 Right · 1The sources said the encounter was not connected to an immigration enforcement operation and described it as an unrelated incident. 1 Right · 2The sources also said Corrales, a Venezuelan national who they said was in the country illegally, was apprehended at the southern border in October 2023 and then released into the United States during the Biden administration. 1 2

Right · 1They added that he had a prior arrest in California, where he was released despite an ICE detainer; the charges and the releasing jurisdiction were not immediately available. 2 Right · 1Fox News Digital said it had asked the FBI's Chicago field office for information about the shooting and the agent's involvement; no FBI account is included in the coverage so far, and the account rests on anonymous sources. 1